Taking Ownership of Revival | Pr. Jack

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I'm going to talk about taking ownership, taking ownership of revival,

taking ownership of revival. So you know, revival. We've been

talking about revival. But of course the last two weeks

we've been talking about fasting, right, prayer and fasting. And

I really loved what both the speakers who spoke on

fasting and prayer, they did really well, Doctor Jill and

also Profbology. All right, so they spoke about fasting and

we are still fasting and still praying because fasting, we're

not prayer is just a diet, right, it's just a strike.

But we're not doing a strike, all right. We are

fasting and we are we're seeking God. And I yeah,

I really this time around, for me at least, I

feel really such a connection, you know, with the Holy Spirit.

Even the fasting is going really well. I want to

be honest with you. Even past fasting, you know, uh,

is I struggle a little bit meaning and the temptation

to eat and to cheat, you know, is there. And uh,

the prayer part also, you know, it's on and off.

But this time around, I wanna. I just want to

I just want to praise God. It's a testimony. You

know that the fasting has been supernatural. Uh, you know,

the seeking the Lord and reading the Bible. Uh and uh,

thank I'm thankful for the messages that came from our

speakers that really encourage us. And uh it really also

just motivated us to keep going and to do it

for the Lord and do it supernaturally. So the fast

thing a prayer has been going well. I hope it's

also going well for all of you. Otherwise, there's a

few more days. Just keep going, do it supernaturally. Don't

fast out of your own strength, all right, Fast in

the Lord, fast depending on him. Otherwise, like Balaji said,

it's just a strike. You're like as if you're saying God,

do this or else, that's not going to happen. All right.

God is God. We are never God, and we cannot

strike against God and he will never we will never

twist his arm. Amen. All right, So let's let's please

let's look for let's seek Him in our fast thing.

But today right now I want to talk about we

were going back to revival, all right. So the title

taking ownership of revival. When we think about revival, if

you look into the history of revivals that happened around

the world. Uh uh, there's some similarity similarities, all right, People,

you know, all of a sudden go together. They want

to go to church, they want to worship the Lord,

they want to hear the word of God. And sometimes

it gets a little bit messy, all right, because first

of all, I think stuff like the church will have

no space. Everybody suddenly wants to come to church. There's

not enough chairs, no people maybe sitting on the floors.

So it gets a little bit disorganized, you know, but

it's a good problem. Just that. Uh, there's there's this

now like a kind of like an update, an update

about how we should handle revival. You know, Revival is great,

and God wants to bring revival because he wants all

to be saved. He wants all to know, all right.

That's why we one or two years back we had

this theme right that all may know, and that's because

that's God's heart. He wants all to know. He wants

all and the Bible also says that every knee will bow,

every tongue confess, So he wants all. He wants to

save all, He wants all to be in his house.

So but we need to get ready. So that the

key is we need to get ready. We need to

take ownership of revival. Maybe all this time, the concept

and the idea of revival is that you know, God,

you do it, and let's see what happens. It's almost

like that. But really God wants to partner with us

when he brings revival. He wants us to be able

to hold it. He wants us to be able to

own it, all right. So today's word I want to

bring to you is on that taking ownership, all right.

When more people come, we should be able to handle

that because maybe in the past there's always been one

person who's the leader, one person who's the pastor one

person who's the shepherd. But today, even in ext church,

we have homes leaders. In ex church, we have shepherds.

We have more pastors, all right, and every one of

us we are partners. Everyone say partners. Partners meaning you

are not just a you know, you are not just

a spectator. When you're a partner, you take part. You

are active. You're not just here and watching. You're not

an audience only. Right. So for example, if let's say

one hundred more people suddenly wants to come to church.

Each and every one of us need to take one

of them and make disciples of them. So therefore we

need to get ready and we need to start doing

discipleship with our own lives, because if God wants to

bring revival, he's kind of like sometimes waiting. Go like,

are you guys ready if I bring one hundred more,

are you able to at least manage that one right

and disciple them and teach them and speak to them

and pray with them? All right? So discipleship is one

of those things that are a key to revival. Amen, Okay,

let's move on. So what does ownership look like? Oh?

I have to put food for you on a fasting time? Okay,

but what does ownership look like? So? I put a

dish here because I want to share with you a

little bit of an experience that I had just a

few days ago. Okay, I had, you know, me and

Jill we decided to go for a date. All right, yeah, hallelujah.

All right, it's been a while. And actually she was

the one, she's who said, hey, can we go somewhere

this Friday? For you know, for a date. I'm like,

should have been me, I should have been one asking.

But then she said, let the kids stay home. They're

gonna you know, we order some food for them and

let's go. Okay. So I said immediately, yeah, sure, you know,

because yeah, I thought I should have been one asking.

But don't worry, okay. She she she's such a kind lady,

all right, and she understands. I've been very busy with

this whole master's thing. Uh and work, right, and we

had open day for Victory Academy uh and yeah, just

a lot of things. So anyway, we went to this

place because I thought, and so I almost left it

to her to even plan the whole thing. So but

I I stopped there and I said, no, let me

plan it, all right, let me plan it. At least

I found a place. I found a place where we

could go. I said, okay, don't worrybory it there. Let

me settle that, all right. So, man, we gotta take leadership, right,

We gotta lead the way, although sometimes you don't feel

like it, but just do it, all right, Guys, Okay, married,

not married? You when you're going to get married, okay,

when you want to, when you want to go for

a day, you want to you want to meet a lady?

Lead the way, right, Okay, don't let the ladies take charge,

all right, because they can. They are very good at that.

So you must really step front first, okay, all right,

So I at least took that. I planned it, and

I said, Then she asked where are we going? I said,

you want it to be a surprise, all right. Then

she's like, okay, sure, all right, so we go to

race place. So we finally arrived to this place. All right.

So this place is for the longest time I've seen it. Okay,

I've seen it around for the longest time, and when

I look at it, I don't feel like stepping into

it because it's called Chameleon. Who goes to a restaurant

called Chameleon? All right? Like what your lizards there or something?

All right? So so as I googled it, I saw

a picture. He standard good, all right, So that's why

I decided to go. So we went there, and uh,

there's the reason why it's called Kamelion because they say

their food is colorful and they changed them men you

like two months once, so you can check out Chameleon.

It's not too expensive. Also, it's okay, okay, all right.

So anyway, this dish all right that Jill ordered. Jill ordered,

this dish is a fish, all right, it's a fish.

I think it's barra mundy b how you call it

bara mundy fish? Okay, and look at it. Look at it.

It's so colorful. It really is so colorful. And so

the owner was so passionate. And uh, this is what

I mean by ownership, like she really took ownership. There's

two of them, the husband and wife. With the wife

was the one taking orders. And as she come to

she came to take orders, she was really explaining everything,

uh you know, not everything like it's too long, but

she explained the recommended stuff. And she she's saying, all

our ingredients, you know, is uh natural, Uh, we make

it all ourselves from scratch, even the sauces, you know.

And she will explain the sauce in the middle, you know,

in that bowl, that white sauce for the fish. They

take the fish bone and they boil and they take

that liquid and then make a sauce out of it,

and those colorful things that it's all different, different puries

and stuff to compliment with the dish and whole We

were so amazed just listening to all that story. Okay,

hey guys, all right, we'll see you there and can

all right anyway, so uh and so she explained, and

then she said, you know, but really all our dish

we have a story. We have a story. And then

she didn't talk too much, right, but she let us

enjoy and even the drinks. All right, the teach they

concocted it themselves, how they you know, they arranged how

they want it to be, the ingredients. It's amazing. It's amazing.

And the word you know then Jill was I want

to say, oh, they really have ownership of this whole thing,

and so you know, and all the dishes different, so

different things we tried there. It was amazing and they

really take ownership and them by the time we met

the husband who is the main chef, all right, he

he came and explained and he talked a lot more.

He explained about his pass and the branches they start

that before and how they've failed and everything. Testimonies. Okay,

but we found it. They're not Christiana. But anyway, but

the hell of stories. But but what I wanted to

point out here is I saw ownership, passion curating things

themselves that you know, I don't want to copy anyone here.

The husband even said, you know, I had to fire

one chef once because he bought cream from the shop.

So we don't buy cream. We make it like real ownership,

like they really want original, right. So anyway, that's what

I wanted to say. You know, I hope you catch

something here. Can you imagine? Can you imagine if we

took ownership. I'm sure we all do, and I see it.

I see it in many of us here, all right.

If we took a little bit more ownership of our

relationship with God, all right? That this is mine. This

is my relationship with my Lord, all right, it's not

anyone else's. It's not I can't depend on someone else

to have a relationship with Jesus, all right. If I

took ownership of my own reading of the Bible, if

I took ownership of prayer, if I took ownership of

the church. This is my church, all right. This is

not just their church. It's my church. We are here,

we own this together, we take ownership of it, all right.

Can you imagine how about let's say, not just the church.

But you know, when you are at your work place,

you take ownership of your job. This is my job.

I've been given this job by God. All right. Yeah,

things of course not perfect, and I don't like some

things about it. But if you take ownership and you

do things like that, rights, simply do ask your boss.

Was all right? And you know, I think your boss

can sense it that this person is like a son

and a daughter of this company. Right, if you took

ownership at school, in college of your course. I I

was sharing this also in school, all right, and I

said about subjects, about studies, if students took ownership of

their math, mathematics, because you know, if you don't like it,

you know you won't take ownership. It's like this, this

is an alien this is uh, you know, uh illegal child.

You know, I don't. I don't like this, all right.

Mathematics is not part of me. That's that's that means

you this is the opposite of ownership. You rejected. But

if you took ownership, even though you don't like mathematics,

you took ownership of you. Okay, it's already part of me.

I accept it, I receive it, and I'm gonna own it.

I'm going to own this math, and I'm gonna be

an expert in an out of it, you will experience success.

One of the Okay, ownership is a value. In the church,

we have twelve plus one, twelve values plus one thirteen values.

They call it twelve plus one one day we'll explain

to you. But I think in a partnership class it's explained.

I believe, all right. So if you join a partnership class,

I think they will explain to you the values of

the church. So one of the values is called ownership promoting.

Ownership promoting. There's the word promoting there because when you

take ownership, you will be promoted. There's promotion in ownership.

You know, when you take ownership in your workplace, promotion

will come. Promotion comes from the Lord. Right, amen. But

if you don't take ownership, people who know this guy

come to work, don't come to work, you know, do

half way to work and stuff like that, and you go,

how can I promote someone like that? Right? So ownership promoting,

don't promote yourself, all right, don't wait for man to promote.

You take ownership and promotion will come from the Lord. Amen. Okay,

let's go on. I wanted to read to you from

Jeremiah twenty nine one to fourteen. All right, So even

as the Bible versus there, I suddenly remembered a few

more things here about taking ownership. So like, can you imagine,

you know, just a simple thing. Let's say like XTV,

say the XTV. All right, what's an example of taking

ownership of something like XTV? Right? Yeah, I'm not chill.

I'm not saying anything about you guys, but I'm just saying,

just imagine you know x TV. Right, if I take

ownership of serving an XTV, I will make sure the

spelling is correct because once it goes up there, it's

on me, all right, because if I don't take ownership

of it is it will be like yalla, who going

to create the slide? All wrong? One? Not my problem,

all right, But if i'm x TV, I'll be like

checking and go like, hey, there's something wrong with this slide.

Then I would tell the guy, of course, a your

slide has mistakes, or if I can edit it, I'll edit.

So that's that's an idea of ownership, all right. Uh?

And uh, you know I saw today they were like, well,

really pressing quite fast, you know, because they know if

the slide doesn't come up, and if it's a newer song,

people will be delayed in their singing and that's why

they're Sometimes they're quiet because I don't know what to sing, right.

So that's one idea of ownership. Let's take let's take

musicians and Extreme for example ownership. All right, if you

take ownership of extreme and worship and the song and

the music, you will do your homework and check the

song before Sunday, all right, what we normally do, what

we have done before in Extreme will say, hey, guys,

you can at least listen to the song, because if

you don't listen to the recording of the song, you

won't know what the lines are and how the song

goes and so on Sunday. You're winging it. I know

you're a pro musician, but even pro musicians can't wing

it like that, all right, Okay, A pro musician that

has done a lot of work life. That's why they're prob. Okay,

But talk about musicians, talk about singers. If you own it,

you will practice, you will train yourself, all right to

improve on your skill. So that's ownership. Right, Okay, that's

just just wanted to give a few examples. I'm sure

there's so many other examples. You know. As a host,

I will practice my smiles, I will practice my handshakes,

I will dress up. You know, I'll make sure I'll

invest in the clothing that's taking ownership. All right, So anyway,

let's go to this verse right now. These are the

words of the letter that Jeremiah the Prophets sent from

Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to

the priests the prophets and all the people whom Nabu

Kanza had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. Next,

i'll read verse three onwards. Yeah, the letter was sent

by the hand of Ilasa, the son of Chaffan, and

Gamma Raya, the son of Hilkia, whom Zada Kaya, king

of Judah, sent to Babylon, to Nabuka, king of Babylon.

It's said, thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God

of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent

into exile from Jerusalem to babyl This is the letter,

all right, Okay, so positive for a while. It's there's

they're being exiled, all right, that's been prophesied by Jeremiah,

and they've been in denial, but finally this is happening.

All right, they're being exiled and they and they get

a letter from from Jeremiah. Okay, so send by Ilasa. Okay,

Next slight, So what is this letter saying. This is

a letter from the Lord. In fact, it's from the Lord.

It says, build houses and live in them, plant gardens

and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters.

Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in

marriage that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there

and do not decrease, Do not decrease. Hold on, okay,

don't move on. First, the letter is given to these

people being exiled to Babylon. They were in their home,

you know, either Israel or yeah, I think you should

be Israel, right, So they were moved out to Babylon,

which is quite far away. And so this is instruction

from the Lord on how to handle your situation. Because

when you are exiled in Babelon, you're in an alien land.

You are a land that you are not familiar with,

and the food you're not used to the Maybe the

climate and everything also has changed, all right, and the

people definitely in the language. You feel really out of place.

And sometimes many of us feel that way too. Where

we are all right? So, but God is giving some clarity,

some instruction of how you should live your lives from here,

even though you're far away, even though you're not at home.

You're at this place called baby long. I give you

some steps, some instructions what you should do. And this

is when I read it, I feel quite comforted. If

I was one of them, you know, I'll be like, oh, okay,

this is what I should do. All right, Eat plant eat.

Get married. I can still get married, thank god, I

can still have children because right, and you get married

and you have children, there's joy, it's happiness, all right,

and you can see your next generation still multiplying. Right.

And this is to not decrease, because sometimes people get depressed,

right when they get kicked out of their place and

go like, oh why am I here as this place?

I want to go home? I will I want I

won't do anything now because I'm not at home. I'm

not comfortable, all right. I will wait for the day

I come home. By by the time. You're already older, right,

maybe not able and stuff like that, But this is

wisdom from the Lord. Don't decrease their keep multiplying. Okay,

next light, but seek the welfare of the city where

I have sent you into exile, and pray to the

Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will

find your welfare. So this is the next step. After

you take care of your family. You make sure you

are healthy, you eat well, You plant gardens because maybe

you're not used to the food from those people there.

Right that at least you plant your own gardens and

you eat your and you can trust your food. Right.

Then you take care of you, you raise your family

and with that, now take care of the city. Take

care of your surroundings. Make sure it's clean. How many

of you here. You look at trash around in the

street of Malaysia and you go like, it's okay, that's

not my country. Let those Malaysians take care of it.

Even the Malaysians are like, let whoever, let the foreigners

take care Everyone is passing it to someone else to do. Right,

But the word of the Lord tells us we take

care of the city. It's not our city, it's not

your city, but take care of it. Seek the welfare

of the city where I have sent you, and pray

to the Lord on his behalf. Don't curse it, bless it.

Pray to the Lord on his behalf. You see a

problem in the city, in the land, in the country,

your community, at your workplace, you see a problem there,

don't just complain about it. Don't just blame the people,

all right, but pray for them. Pray. Pray for the situation,

all right, because when you pray for a situation, we

also change our view also changes, right, the negativity will

change to hope. There's hope because we are looking to

God for a change, right, And it says on his

behalf and for it's for in its welfare you will

find your welfare. So you want to be blessed. You

bless the others. We be a blessing because when we

are a blessing, the blessing comes back to us. That's

what this word is saying. Amen. And so even here

as I was reading this, I was reminded, and I

believe you know, the Lord gave me the word on ownership.

Taking ownership of where you are at. Okay, whatever you're doing,

take ownership of it, take care of it, all right. Now,

let's go on. So all right, we read on a

for I know the plans I have for you, Declass

the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to

give you a hope, a future, and a hope. Then

you will call upon me and come and pray to me,

and I will hear you. All right anymore, you will

seek me and find me. When you seek me with

all your heart, I will be found by you, the

Class the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and

gather you from all the nations and all the places

where I have driven you, the Class the Lord, and

I will bring you back to the place from which

I sent you into exile. So yeah, initially, when we

hear Jeremiah warn the people, it sounded really strong, right,

and it says, you know, this is like punishment, punishment

from the Lord. You guys have done it. You know

you have you come to the end of it. You're

gonna get a punishment. You're gonna get exile. But in

this exile we see God's grace. It's God's grace that

he put us into exile. It's God's grace that he

puts us into punishment. It's actually training. It's training as

they and you know he gave instructions as they do that.

He says, Now when I you know what's the worse

before I know the plans I have for you. It

is for welfare, even through the punishment, even through the difficulty,

it is for your welfare. It is for your good.

So we thank God the suffering that we go through,

the challenges and the difficulty that we go through, it

is for our good. Amen. Tell your neighbor, it's for

your good. It's for your good. The difficulty you go

through is for your good that the Lord allows us

to go through. Amen. Okay, let's go on. Let's go on. Okay.

So how do you take ownership? How do you take ownership?

All right of revival? How do you take ownership of

your life? How do you take ownership of your relationship

with the Lord? How do you take ownership of the church?

Now I've got three letters for you. I've shed this

in a VA chapel. Okay, but so see what do

you remember? Okay? How do you take ownership? Number one

starts we owe oh no one anything, oh no want

anything except to right. I put money there, right, because

we normally you know, it feels good, right, it feels

good that people owe you stuff. He's got all me money,

so the bank owes me money or you know, I

love that. Sometimes you don't have your I don't know

whether the non Malaysians here it applies. I don't think

it applies to you. The Malaysians are we Sometimes I look,

I just go to this website and checking out the

unclaimed money. Have you heard on that they're suching you.

I don't know. Maybe your country heavy as well, but Malaysia.

Once in a while, after a few years, I just

go to this website is a government website, and it's

call is unclaimed money. Your own unclaim money. It's not

other people's, okay. And when when I first discovered that thing,

when I will a bit younger, I saw what I

have so much unclaim money, and I tried to I

tried to claim it. Wow, it wasn't easy. You need documentation,

you need to fill in the form correctly, okay. And

so I managed to claim back some money that I

didn't know was left somewhere in some organizations and stuff

like that. It's unclaim money. And so recently I just

checked the gain. You got some unclaim money. Again, it's

so interesting. So anyway, Malaysians, you can check out it's

ego miss ego miss unclaim money. You might have some

unclaim money from here and there. So anyway, it feels

good that people owe you stuff, right owe you money,

So you want to claim and you want to you

want a lot over them, like, hey, you owe me,

you know that they are. You owe me this favor.

I did this for you, now you need to do

this for me, right owing. But the Bible tells us

all no one anything except what is it? That's a verse?

All right? Romans thirteen eight, Oh, no one anything except

to love each other. For the one who loves another

has fulfilled the law. So you know what of God

gives us the opposite? Don't make people owe you stuff,

but you owe them nothing except to love them. Do

you know how powerful? This is? All right? If we

go by the you owe me mentality? For example, you're

at at your workplace, Let's say this company owes me stuff.

I've done so much work for them. They owe me

more money. They owe me, you know, to treat me

very nice. They owe me a snack back corner Why

has they Why have they not set up a snack

bark corner? I heard about companies like Isaiah's company. They

have a room of food. How come my company doesn't

have even one snack bar. They owe me, they owe

us our, They owe their workers this favor. If you

work that way, you'll be like, oh, haven't set up bar.

I won't do anything, Okay, I just do a bit.

After that, I'll be relaxing. I'll be surfing because I

am only doing what you pay me for. You pay

me so little. I do this much. That's the you

owe me mentality. But if I owe you, I owe

you nothing but to love one another. If you applied

to even your company, this company, I thank god they

hired me. Yeah, they don't have a snack by yet

and they may not even ever have it, But thank

you for hiring me. I owe it to you to

do my best. I owe it to you to this boss,

I owe it to this company. They hired me, they're

willing to hire me. I owe it to them to

keep my very best. Can you imagine how wonderful that's

gonna be? Your your bosses will notice that. And this

guy you know doesn't demand stuff from from us and

I just want to promote this guy man because this

is this is manager boss material man. They will work

with whatever they have. This is this is the I

owe you nothing except to love, amen, And we do

that to the church in this church. While no, don't

even use the led screen word. What projection? Can at

least go too? Just go on? Only all right? What

sound system is this? There's no what do you call artist?

Olivia was a sound uh guy guy sound sound woman.

Last time she was in the sound team, so she knows. No, no,

some I can't feel the base man feel that this

church they owe me something, they owe me something. How

come the message like that? Only can it be deeper?

Not right? So they owe me something? That that you

owe me something, that's that's the But if if it's

not that, if it's I owe you nothing except to

love you, I owe you nothing except to love you

in the church. I want to play my part. I

want to play my part. I've got something I need

to give, I need to do something. Amen. Country nation

can apply to so many things, this country. What you know?

Why is this always it like that? Why is so

little holidays? Already? So many holidays? Okay, why's too many holidays?

All right? So we can go on and on right

in the complaign, what you owe me something? But I

thank God for this powerful word from the Bible says, oh,

no one anything except to love one another. So how

to take ownership? Firstus that oh oh no want anything

except to love? Number two w work? Ownership is work,

all right? If you want to take ownership of revival,

there's work. There's data basis to set up, all right,

There's documents to prepare, there's practice to be done. There's

dressing up. You know, Liza is one of our newer chairpersons,

all right, and she's right, she's stepping up to be

a chatperson. There's work involved, there's children to be raised.

It's work. And you can't just do any work, right,

It has to be hard work. It's hard work. Marriage

is hard work. You want to take ownership of your marriage?

Works involved, like what I tried to do. At least,

I say, I say, never mind, you already did your partner,

You're already at least initiated to have a date. I

will now take ownership and organize it and drive us

there and pay for it. It's work, all right, And

it's hard work. And not just hard work, but hard

work as a son or a daughter of the house.

Imagine if you acted a little bit more like a

son or a daughter in your school, in your company,

right in your family. Some of you are sons and noted,

but don't act like Sun and not right meaning where

he says sun and daughter, it's not just as a child,

but as an heir, an heir to the throne, and

heir to the business, and heir to the family you represent.

So work, Okay, next night there, right, Let's look at

the Bible verse John chapter ten ten to fifteen. Okay,

let's get okay we well, yeah, we won't read together

this one. Don't worry, this one very long. Okay. The

thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I

came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down

his life for the sheep. Next he who is hired

Who is a hired hand and not a shepherd who

does not own the sheep? Oh, you see that there

does not own The sheep sees the wolf coming and

leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them

and scatters them. He flees because he's a hired hand

and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd.

I know my own and my own know me, just

as the Father knows me, and I know the Father,

and I lay down my life for the sheep. So work,

there's work, all right. We are not a highed hand.

We're an heir. So this shepherd knows what he's doing.

He will take care of the sheep. But the higher

hand will be like again, no, you know, they owe

me something, so he paid me only this much, So

I'll only take care of this few sheep. The rest

of them all the best, right, and I might not

be there, so I'll go and have my tata hopefully

when I come back. It's okay. This is right, half

hearted work, right by a high hand. I don't care.

And if the wolf come, sorry, all right, I've done

my best. I've done my best. So can we work

as a son and daughter like an heir to the kingdom.

So we want to take ownership of revival. Let's own it.

Let's be a son and daughter of the house of

God firstly, all right, not a highed hand, not just

a visitor. You can be visited on a few days.

You can be a visitor for ten days, for ten sundays,

visitor one, two three. Because you travel, you go. You

know it's fine, welcome visitors, all right, But those of

you you've been here many many sundays, you're no longer

a visitor. You should no longer be a visitor. Right,

so you need to make a decision. You make a

choice to be a son or a daughter. Amen, Okay,

moving on, they we're gonna end soon. Number the turn

one and be near, not far. Just like the shepherd.

He's near the sheep, all right. If he runs away,

then he's father. Don't be far away, be near, don't

be far away in your heart, don't be far away.

Don't be distracted in your mind. All right. In church,

you're in church. Be in church. Be present, a right,

be present with what's going on. Okay. So when you

when you respond, you know that's why our leaders here

respond by the rest of you can respond. So it's

not just for leaders. Huh. You can say yes, nobody's

gonna say, why wait talking, I'm talking about you're talking.

We won't do that. You can respond because it shows

that you are here. You're here. Even if you just look,

you're your eye contact, you're you're looking at the speaker,

You're you're listening, all right, and you're trying to stay awake.

That's good. Try to stay awake. Move, stand up because

I'm here, I'm here. I'm a bit tired, I just

came back from Philippines three am. But I'm here, I'm here,

I'm near. That's how you take ownership. Amen, Slight. Deuteronomy

thirty one US six. Be strong and courageous. Do not

fear or be in trade of them, for it is

the law. Your God, who goes with you, he will

not leave you or forsake you. God is such a god,

He's a god who is near. He will never leave

us nor forsake us. Amen. So we can take that

example and follow that all right, and be near, be

near to your disciple, be near meaning can you can't

be physically near all the time, but get in touch

with them, all right? And and and the other way

is so. It can't be just waiting for the leader

to call you. You also can text back if you

already have the number, then all right. Leaders won't simply

give you number. Leaders won't simply give you number because

they don't maybe they don't know who you are yet,

and then you might, you know, pass the number to

marketing or whatever. But all right, but if they know

you already and they're willing to give you the number

means they're also ready for you to text them call them.

If they're really busy, they'll tell you, yeah, I'm busy

for now, but can I meet you another time? All right?

So it's not one way. My leader never called me,

My leader never texts me. But you can take ownership

and you can text your leader. You can call them

and say can I can I talk to you? All right?

And your leader trusts me will make time to meet

with you, all right, because they want to be near you,

so you also need to be near all right. The

leader wants to be near you, but then you want

to be far. Then it can't work. Yeah, so both

both need to be near. Well, I'm not saying that

sometimes leaders are we Yeah, okay, we can be near.

I'm talking to myself, so all right, okay, don't be distant,

don't be you know, your focus is here. Don't don't

be distracted by other things outside there. I was telling

the school, you know, the classes. Well, you know, if

it's in math class, you want to own it. But

your mind is on the game, you know, on the

teachers teaching math. Of course you're far away, you're not

near be in the class. Yeah. So anyway, I think

we're almost done here. Let's all stand, let's all stand.

I think we yeah, yeah, we'll wrap up right now.

Harley Lujah. So we're here on our eighteenth birthday, and

we want to take ownership. And we have been taking ownership.

I see that in so many of us here, from

from the ogs to the young ones and to the

even to the children. We take ownership. And we can

continue to do that. Take ownership of the House of

God that he has given to us and the revival

that he's sending to us. We are going to We're

not going to just let it be and see how

it goes and watch like an audience. But we're going

to take part. We're going to be disciples. We're going

to be partners of the Lord's revival in Cyberjaya, in

Malaysia and in the in the world, in the world.

This is our God. He is our God. Amen, this

is our Church. These are my brothers and my sisters.

I love this. I love it that we call God

our father, our father. We don't call him some God

somewhere somewhere, far out there. We don't call our people

just fellow believers, but we call brothers and sisters. Amen.

How good it is for brothers, for brethren to dwell

together in unity. Amen. The whole Bible talks about taking ownership.

Thank you Jesus.

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